Talk:Assyrian celebrations

This article needs quite a lot of work done on it so that it can be of encyclopaedia standard. Nothing is said about Assyrian Martyrs' Day (note where the apostrophe goes). The description of Somikka night is quite like an North-American Halloween, but its position in the calendar makes it closer to the western celebrations of Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras and Carnival. The celebration of Kha b-Nissan on 1 April is eleven days after the more usual 21 March celebration, this suggests that either its date in the Gregorian calendar was fixed when it coincided with 21 March in the Julian calendar (that is between 1700 and 1800), or that someone wanted to disassociate it from the Iranian calendar and put it on the first day of the nearest Gregorian month. The article suggests that the former happened, but doesn't say it clearly enough to be of any good to anyone. Can someone please make sense out of this muddled article? — Gareth Hughes 20:25, 14 August 2006 (UTC)